Quote:Trump Has His Most Racist Moment Yet As He Calls Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas In Front Of Native American Vets
Man, if just one of those Navajos had said "great white father speaks with forked tongue. Adios mfr!"
By Jason Easley on Mon, Nov 27th, 2017 at 3:39 pm
Trump referred to Sen. Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas” at a White House event honoring Native American code talkers.
Trump said, “You were here long before any of us were here. Although we have a representative in Congress who they say was here a long time ago. They call her Pocahontas.”
The President made his comment while standing below a picture of Andrew Jackson, who is the president who signed the Indian Removal Act. The only way that Trump could have made the situation worse would have been to sign an executive order confiscating all the property of the vets in attendance while handing them some smallpox-infected blankets.
When it comes to racism, the neo-Nazi supporting President has given himself a high bar to clear, but Trump has just outdone himself. The racism and bigotry are relentless with Trump. Anytime, he is taken off script; he disgraces the country.
Quote:Native Americans respond to Trump's Pocahontas comment
The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) was quick to condemn Mr. Trump for using a slur against Warren that overshadowed the intent of the ceremony.
"We regret that the President's use of the name Pocahontas as a slur to insult a political adversary is overshadowing the true purpose of today's White House ceremony," stated NCAI President Jefferson Keel, a decorated U.S. Army officer and Vietnam War combat veteran. "Today was about recognizing the remarkable courage and invaluable contributions of our Native code talkers.
That's who we honor today and everyday – the three code talkers present at the White House representing the 10 other elderly living code talkers who were unable to join them, and the hundreds of other code talkersfrom the Cherokee, Choctaw, Comanche, Lakota, Meskwaki, Mohawk, Navajo, Tlingit, and other tribes who served during World Wars I and II."
NCAI referred to a release issued at another time when Mr. Trump used "Pocahontas" as an epithet against Warren. In that statement, the group pointed out that Pocahontas and her family, part of the Pamunkey Indian tribe in Virginia, played a valued role in American history, having signed a treaty with the British in the 17th century. They were only recently officially recognized as a tribe by the U.S. government, though.
"The name of Pocahontas should not be used as a slur, and it is inappropriate for anyone to use her name in a disparaging manner," the group said in May.
Mr. Trump has often mocked the Massachusetts senator with the nickname during the presidential campaign, and even after.
The Navajo Nation, too, weighed in, saying that it "does not want to engage in this dialogue between" Warren and Mr. Trump, but the group's president, Russell Begaye, complained that "in this day and age, all tribal nations still battle insensitive references to our people.
The prejudice that Native American people face is an unfortunate historical legacy."
